côtières
\ko.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“côtières” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,613
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de côtier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cotieres · côtières · French
côtières · rank #25,613 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,613
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cépage
Nearest frequency peer: cépage (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « côtières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- correctionn…
correctionnelle
74,393 corpus weight
- cupidité
cupidité
74,390 corpus weight
- cépage
cépage
74,389 corpus weight
- côtières
côtières
74,388 corpus weight
- dictateurs
dictateurs
74,385 corpus weight
- diriez
diriez
74,384 corpus weight
What this shows « côtières » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | côtières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ko.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « côtières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around côtières (IPA \ko.tjɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,613 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de côtier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for côtières, with forms such as "ccôtières", "cotieres", and "ctôières". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "côtiers", "cotées", "côtier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is côtières, spelled C-Ô-T-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de côtier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how côtières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On distingue ainsi la zone supratidale, cette portion côtière émergée en permanence et sur laquelle sont souvent campées des dunes côtières, la zone mésotidale, qui correspond à la zone de battement des marées ou de marnage, et enfin la zone infratidale localisée en dessous de la marée basse et s’étendant jusqu’à la limite de la zone euphotique, là où il…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccôtières
- cotieres
- ctôières
- côitères
- côtirèes
- côtièers
- côtièress
- côtièrres
- côtièrse
- côttières
- côtèires
- ôctières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of côtières - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).